Posts tagged with: Leadership
Science can help to spot symptoms of executive hubris. (Financial Times, 2013)
Tett, Gillian. "How can an investor tell if a bank is heading for danger? Analysts have proposed all manner of financial measures. But why not analyse the words of the...
Toxic leadership: An understanding on how a business environment is ‘contaminated’ by leaders. (2013)
"The authors expose how the business environment is contaminated by leaders presenting toxic behaviours. Once toxic behaviours occur in the company, the entire system becomes alienated and its welfare is...
Alex Ferguson is an alpha-male primate and this is why he was a great manager. (2013)
"The more successful he became, the bigger the egos he had to deal with among his millionaire players. Success, like power, is a strong drug which inflates egos and can...
The relationship between psychopathy and the Full Range leadership model. (2013)
"Psychopathy positively correlated with passive leadership behavior, namely passive-management-by-exception and laissez-faire, but correlated negatively with individual consideration Kristie M. Westerlaken, Peter R. Woods; Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Queensland,...
Born to lead? A twin design and genetic association study of leadership role occupancy. (2013)
"The authors address leadership emergence and the possibility that there is a partially innate predisposition to occupy a leadership role... the first study to identify a specific genotype associated with the tendency...
Hubris in leadership: a peril of unbridled intuition? (2015)
"The authors argue that intuition is a central factor in hubristic leadership. Further, that when intuition becomes misunderstood, unchecked or unbridled, hubristic behaviour is more likely to appear. Guy...
Fearless dominance and the U.S. presidency. Implications of psychopathic personality traits for successful and unsuccessful political leadership. (2012)
"‘Fearless Dominance’, which reflects the boldness associated with psychopathy, was associated with better rated presidential performance, leadership, persuasiveness, crisis management, Congressional relations, and allied variables; By Lilienfeld, Scott O.;...
The H Factor: A behavioral explanation of leadership failures in the 2007-2009 financial system meltdown. (2012)
"the current problems with the financial system and our economy have many of their roots in ... words that begin with the letter H - hubris, hypocrisy, hostility, honour, humility, and...
Bright aspects to dark side traits: Dark side traits associated with work success. (2012)
"While personality disorders are powerful predictors of success and failure at work, narcissism and obsessive compulsiveness were correlated with success. Some ‘dark side’ traits may not always lead to work...
Prozac leadership and the limits of positive thinking. (2012)
"Blind allegiance to organizational optimism lies at the heart of many of the financial miscalculations that drove the Great Recession.. optimism tends to resemble a well-intended but addictive drug Collinson,...